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Question 604703: In a local high school basketball game, the winning team scored 60 of their points on a combination of 25 two- and three-pointers. How many shots of each type did the team make? Answer by asuar010(338) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! x represents 2-pointers and y represents 3-pointers so we can set up the equations as x+y=25 and 2x+3y=60 so we can solve the first equation for x and we get x=25-y and then we plug it in the second one and we get 2(25-y)+3y=60 if we solve for y we get 50-2y+3y=60 and we get y =10 and x=15.
